UGA VIGRE  GROUP: DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS IN MATHEMATICAL  BIOLOGY
   






     The UGA VIGRE Dynamical Systems Group consists of faculty members, graduate students and undergraduates. We are interested in studying ordinary differential equations and their applications to the biological sciences.

  Our current research facilitators are Dr. Malcolm Adams, Dr. Caner Kazanci, and Dr. Andrew Sornborger.

     We use Maple, Matlab, and qualitative analytic methods to study and develop models from the biological sciences. We now have three subgroups working on models from epidemiology for the parvo virus, HIV, and parasite infection. A fourth subgroup is looking at models of morphogenesis in zebra fish. The parvo virus and parasitology groups are studying the onset of limit cycles, the HIV group has started a review of literature and is now coding some existing models to aid further study. The morphogenesis group is interested in studying bifurcations of reaction-diffusion systems.